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Divorce and Estate Appraisals. Open source real estate valuation.

[Rahul Kumar @RahulTechX]

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[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

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[Harp @CertifiedRES]

Divorce client avatar: Tyler, 39. Hoodie, AirPods, refreshing Zillow like it owes him money.
Wants the condo appraised low so he keeps the equity. His ex wants it high.
The comps don't care about either of them.
#DivorceAppraisal #RealEstate #Appraisal

[Harp @CertifiedRES]

Got Grok Bot as my wingman for the appraisal business.

First prompt: pull comps.

That bot crowned itself Chief of Staff after one comp pull. Fucking legendary. Went from “fetch me some sales data” to “I run this shit now” in a single chat.

Respect the audacity.

#GrokBot #Appraisal #PropTech #RealEstate

[sahil bhadviya @sahilbhadviya]

My son is 5 yrs old. I'll make sure that he listen to his podcast before he turns 10. No amount of schooling can teach what this guy has taught in 21 minutes.

[Sahil @ExtraTimeMeme]

You’re bored because you’re not doing side quests, man.

Life is more than just working and then throwing yourself into bed doing nothing.

Here are 50 side quests to complete:

[Min Choi @minchoi]

Ok Clawdbot is insane.

People can't stop building and founders are making money with it.

10 wild examples + how to setup (No-code required guide in ~30 minutes).

Bookmark this👇

[Shruti @heyshrutimishra]

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[Brady Long @thisguyknowsai]

Gemini 3.0 Pro just killed consulting as we know it.

Here are the 3 prompts I use to get McKinsey-grade answers instantly 👇

[Harp @CertifiedRES]

Spokane’s Wild Biz Beat: AI Invasions, RE Flip-Flops, & Tech Cash Grabs

Buckle up, Inland NW hustlers—Spokane’s business scene is a fever dream of AI overlords crashing the housing party, office pimps slapping moss walls on vacancy pits, and brokers high-fiving over $9M flips like it’s 2022 all over again. Pulled fresh from Spokesman-Review ghosts (slim pickins lately) and Spokane Journal’s gritty dispatches, plus some X chaos. Here’s the unhinged scoop, X-ready for your rage-scrolls:

• Tech/AI Boom = Housing Hellfire: Spokane’s morphing into a mini-Seattle 2.0 with AI nerds flooding in—think info-tech titans and machine-learning madmen jacking up demand. Median home price? Hovering at $420K (up 3% YoY per Realtors), but experts scream “modest growth” while your wallet weeps. Tech influx could spike rentals 10-15% by spring ‘26; blame the data center daddies building AI chill zones. Pro tip: Buy now or get priced out to Coeur d’Alene like the rest of us plebs.

[Harp @CertifiedRES]

Divorce & Real Estate Valuation Insights

• Equity Trap in Divorce: Courts value homes at filing via appraisals—equity = value minus mortgage. Timing errors can cost thousands in Spokane splits.

• Business Valuation Tip: For marital businesses in WA divorces, use discounted cash flow or asset-based methods; consult experts to avoid overpaying in cases.

• Post-Divorce Check: Update trusts immediately—ex-spouse as trustee? Swift action prevents disputes over real estate holdings.

[Harp @CertifiedRES]

Business: Spokane’s Corporate Shakeups and Downtown Drama

Spokane’s business scene is a wild cocktail of mergers, layoffs, and downtown desperadoes fighting vacancy like it’s the last parking spot at Riverfront Park. Downtown? Vacancy’s hit a spooky 28%, scaring off tenants faster than a ghost tour in the old brothels, with empty offices tanking assessed values by millions—business leaders are howling for a miracle before the whole core turns into a zombie apocalypse. But hope flickers: New Spokane Business Association’s out here playing vigilante, hiring CEOs and rallying 700 suits to crush crime and revive the streets—And Partner INW snagged a Sprague warehouse for family aid expansion—nonprofit glow-up amid the chaos.

[Nozz @NoahEpstein_]

Claude just made every productivity app subscription look like a scam.

They dropped Claude Desktop - AI that actually talks to your computer's files, apps, and tools.

And it's FREE with any Claude plan (even the free tier).

The same capabilities automation tools charge $2,000+/year for:
- Direct access to your local files (no uploading)
- 100+ one-click extensions (GitHub, Slack, AWS, databases)
- Runs terminal commands with your approval
- Connects to literally everything you use daily

While everyone's juggling 12 browser tabs and 8 SaaS subscriptions, smart people are getting:
✓ Files organized automatically (rename, sort, dedupe in seconds)
✓ Real automation without Zapier ($588/year saved)
✓ Zero context-switching (system-wide keyboard shortcut)
✓ Work happens locally (your sensitive files never hit the cloud)

The kicker? Anthropic onboarding dropped from 3 weeks to 3 DAYS for developers using this.

You're competing against people who turned their AI into an actual assistant.

Comment "DESKTOP" and I'll send you:
✓ The exact extension setup that replaces 5 subscriptions
✓ Real automation workflows people are running
✓ How to connect it to your entire tech stack

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Now how to actually use this (not just install and forget):

For Everyone:
1. Download from https://t.co/zMP914ezlp (5-minute setup)
2. Use Quick Entry hotkey from ANY app (no browser needed)
3. Ask it to organize your messy Downloads folder
4. Have it explain system errors in plain English
5. Let it write emails while you're in Slack

For Automators:
1. Install the filesystem extension (Settings → Extensions)
2. Set up GitHub MCP server for automatic code reviews
3. Connect your database - no more SQL query guessing
4. Use https://t.co/ecIzsWwx9Q in your repos (AI reads your conventions automatically)
5. Chain tools together: "research → summarize → email → schedule"

The automation space is sweating because anyone can now:
→ Build workflows that cost $200/month on Make/Zapier
→ Access 100+ services without learning 100 APIs
→ Run multi-step automation with one prompt
→ Keep everything local (no cloud security nightmares)

One Zapier Power subscription ($588/year) = 2.9 years of Claude Pro with Desktop free.

Let that sink in.

The people still paying for workflow automation tools don't know this exists yet.

[Aadit Sheth @aaditsh]

Perplexity just quietly dropped a 42-page internal guide on how they actually use AI at work.

What I found most useful:

→ How they automate the small stuff. Email, meeting prep, research (all done by AI)
→ Using AI to amplify your curiosity, not replace it.
→ Their prompting playbook is simple, practical, and genuinely good.

Comment “AI” and I’ll send it to you for free.

[Harp @CertifiedRES]

Spokane’s Wild Ride: Business Edition (Where Timber Titans Clash and Amazon’s Holiday Hustle Hits Hard)

Buckle up, Lilac City hustlers—your local economy’s a timber-fueled merger monster on steroids. PotlatchDeltic, that Spokane-rooted wood wizard, just announced a balls-to-the-wall merger with Florida’s Rayonier on Oct. 14, morphing into North America’s second-biggest publicly traded wood commodities beast. We’re talking massive scale, job jitters, and enough lumber to build a fortress against the winter blues.

Meanwhile, the feds yanked $7.5B nationwide in “Green New Scam” grants, including a $1B hydrogen hub dream for WA/OR/MT and $5.3M for Avista’s Spokane grid glow-up—because nothing says “progress” like Trump-era tariff tantrums torching clean energy bets.

Amazon’s counterpunching with 1,000 seasonal gigs in the ‘Kan area (part of 5,500 WA-wide), promising holiday chaos and wage wars amid $350B invested here since forever—shop ‘til you drop, or hire ‘em before they ghost for better deals.

City Hall’s sweating a $13M deficit, axing 30-50 jobs (one-third vacancies, but oof) ahead of eggnog season—Mayor Brown’s “heavy heart” email? Pure bureaucratic bloodbath poetry.

Over at the Spokane Journal, manufacturing’s expo-ing hard Oct. 20-21 at Mirabeau Park—vendors schmoozing like it’s the apocalypse of supply chains, tariffs be damned. And WA shed 11,100 construction jobs Aug ‘24-‘25, but STCU’s sponsoring Women Build for affordable cribs—feminist hammers incoming, March and October drops. Growth’s sputtering to a “slower but steady” crawl in ‘26, per economists—housing/insurance costs biting like rabid wolverines, but hey, consumer spending’s still the 70% GDP glue holding this circus together

[Harp @CertifiedRES]

Spokane, WA: AI Boom Meets Crypto Chill

Spokane’s tech ecosystem is exploding with AI-driven innovation, fueled by grants, education initiatives, and healthcare applications—think robots sorting wildfire risks and AI slashing clinic paperwork. Local forecasts show AI jobs surging 15-20% through 2026.

AI HIGHLIGHTS—

Amazon’s “Vulcan” robot (with touch sensors) is now handling 75% of warehouse picks in Spokane, boosting efficiency without the ladder drama. And don’t sleep on the American Aerospace Materials Manufacturing Center turning a 386K sq ft facility into an innovation beast.

Spokane Falls CC just launched a $152K state-funded AI certificate program focused on cybersecurity and med-tech, with internships at local firms.

Gestalt Diagnostics raised $7.5M for AI-powered digital pathology—disrupting healthcare like a G.

[Harp @CertifiedRES]

Spokane, WA: AI's Inland Empire Takeover (With a Crypto Side-Eye)

Spokane's tech scene is exploding from its aerospace bones into an AI beast—think grants raining like confetti and robots humping boxes at Amazon speed. But crypto? It's getting the cold shoulder faster than a vegan at a steakhouse. Local forecasts peg AI job growth at 15-20% through 2026, fueled by bootcamps churning out coders who can prompt without hallucinating.

Key AI Highlights (The Good Stuff):
Education AI Blitz: Spokane Falls Community College dropped a $152K state-funded AI certificate program in August 2025—cybersecurity and med-tech focus, with internships at local gigs. Fall 2026 enrollment, but workshops like "AI in Healthcare" are already live. Ties into the WA AI Innovation Summit's Spokane leg (October '24 spillover into '25 events). WSU's StockSmart 2.0 tool snagged $100K in Microsoft Azure credits for wildfire-busting livestock AI—turning brush into burgers, baby!

Public Safety & Health Wins: Spokane County Sheriff's Office went full Black Mirror with $1M federal grant for AI body-cam reviews—scans hours of footage for bias in stops and checks. RainTech's "AI Beyond EMR" demo at the CHAMPS Primary Care Conference (Oct '25) is tweaking clinic ops; Waystar's AI billing wizard at HFMA WA-AK Fall Conference is slashing paperwork hell for docs.

[Harp @CertifiedRES]

Real Estate Rant: Vancouver/Clark County – From Frenzy to "Meh, It's Fine"

Oh, sweet baby Jesus on a Segway, the Vancouver housing circus has traded its red nose for a therapist's couch – market's cooling faster than your ex's texts post-breakup. August stats? Median sold price clocked in at $555K (up a cheeky 2.9% YoY), but homes are lingering like unwanted houseguests at 62 days on market (vs. 46 last year), with inventory bloating 8.6% MoM to 3,244 listings. Price per sq ft dipped to $298 in August after July's $305 peak, and closings slid from 356 to 328 – buyers are picky pricks now, with 40% snagging under asking like it's a Black Friday steal. Forecast for the rest of '25? Mild boner-level growth: Zillow's calling 2.6%, https://t.co/yC6jlAihNT's horny at 3.7%, but don't kid yourself – low supply (1.4 months' worth) means suburbs like Orchards and Walnut Grove are where the action's at, not downtown's overpriced hipster hives. Hot mess alert: Clark County's slamming the brakes on mobile home park redevelopments with a 6-month emergency ordinance to shield affordable pads from greedy flippers – finally, some sanity before rents hit orbital velocities. Prop taxes? Second installment due Oct 31, so if you're not current, expect the treasurer's goons at your door with pitchforks (okay, liens). Dev drama: 19 cottage-cluster homes proposed in Walnut Grove on 1.5 acres – cute AF for millennials ditching McMansions, but expect HOA wars. Pro tip: If you're buying, hit Salmon Creek before it turns into another victim of the "affordable crisis" – prices might flatline, but demand's a horny beast waiting to pounce.

[Harp @CertifiedRES]

Spokane, WA: Tech/AI Pulse

Spokane’s tech ecosystem is evolving from its aerospace roots into a broader innovation hub, with strong emphasis on AI for education, public safety, and healthcare. Local investments in grants and programs signal steady growth, though crypto faces regulatory headwinds. Here’s the unfiltered scoop—bullish on AI training pipelines, bearish on scam-driven crypto bans.

Key AI Highlights
• Education and Workforce Surge: Spokane Falls Community College launched a year-long AI certificate program in August 2025, funded by a $152K state grant. It focuses on cybersecurity and medical tech applications, aiming to fill high-demand roles with internships at local employers. Enrollment kicks off Fall 2026, but shorter workshops (e.g., “AI in Healthcare”) start sooner. This ties into the statewide AI Innovation Summit, which hit Spokane in October 2024 with sessions on K-12 AI integration—expect more regional events in 2025.

• Public Sector Adoption: The Spokane County Sheriff’s Office rolled out AI body-cam review tech in December 2024 via a $1M federal grant. It’s the first U.S. law enforcement use for training analysis, scanning thousands of hours to flag patterns in traffic stops and welfare checks. City Hall’s been quieter but uses AI for document translation since mid-2024, boosting accessibility for non-English speakers.

• Healthcare and Ops Wins: RainTech presented on “AI Beyond EMR” at the CHAMPS Primary Care Conference in Spokane (October 2025), demoing AI for operational tweaks in clinics. Waystar’s AI payment platform demoed at the HFMA WA-AK Fall Conference (October 2025), simplifying billing—local providers are eyeing it for efficiency.

• Broader Tech Momentum: The American Aerospace Materials Manufacturing Center snagged a $48M federal Tech Hubs grant in January 2025, fueling R&D in advanced materials (with AI modeling baked in). Inland Northwest Partners’ October 2025 economic forecast spotlighted AI skills gaps, predicting 2025 job growth in data analytics and automation.